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The New Left Revisited: A Look at Recent Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Richard Snow
Affiliation:
Common Curriculum Librarian at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is working on a history of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, a radical group of the American New Left.

Abstract

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Review Essay
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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